Jamol James was named co-fresh­man of the week in the South­ern Con­fer­ence (SEC) fol­low­ing his win in the men's 60m dash at the Akron In­vi­ta­tion­al on Feb­ru­ary 11. The 19-year-old clocked 6.72 in on­ly his sec­ond month since ar­riv­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee which puts him at num­ber 12 on Ten­nessee's all time list over 60m. James now has the tenth best time in the SEC and is one of four fresh­men sprint­ers in the NCAA's top's 35 this sea­son. The achieve­ment comes fol­low­ing fel­low Ten­nessee team-mate An­nie Alexan­der's top fe­male field ath­lete of the week award in Jan­u­ary.

James is 119th on the lat­est IAAF World In­door 2012 list which is the fourth quick­est T&T sprint­er. Dou­ble Olympic sil­ver medal­list Richard Thomp­son is 8th (6.56), Ke­ston Thomp­son (30th- 6.62) and Marc Burns (42nd -6.64).

James will be go­ing for an­oth­er vic­to­ry at the SEC In­door Cham­pi­onships which take place in Ken­tucky this week­end while Alexan­der will be aim­ing for her sec­ond in­door Con­fer­ence ti­tle in the women's shot put.

Alexan­der took the gold in 2008 and was run­ner up in 2009 and 2010. She missed the 2011 in­door sea­son due to in­jury and will be go­ing in­to this week­end's meet as num­ber one.